{"id":7021,"date":"2025-12-16T16:06:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T16:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/?p=7021"},"modified":"2025-12-17T03:32:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:32:27","slug":"archive-post-archive-a-motherland-of-memory-and-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/archive-post-archive-a-motherland-of-memory-and-imagination\/","title":{"rendered":"Archive \/ Post-Archive: A Motherland Of Memory And Imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7022\" src=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image2.jpg 1999w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image2-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The histories of postcolonial and postwar migration is not new to Vietnam or the Caribbean. What remains unresolved are the identities shaped from its aftermath: children born into, or displaced toward, lands far from their parents\u2019 origins.<\/p>\n<p>Archive \/ Post\u2013Archive at VCCA, part of Photo Hanoi \u201825 orbits around the aftermath of post-colonial trauma, and wonder whether we can fully shed its legacies. Through the lenses of migration and adaptation, the exhibition questions how diasporic identities are constructed through the works of 15 artists across the Vietnamese diaspora and Caribbean artists. The exhibition asks: how do those who inherit displacement learn to imagine or make sense of a motherland?<\/p>\n<p>Held in one of the largest exhibition spaces in Vietnam, Archive \/ Post\u2013Archive is ambitious in its scope. As a result, there ends up a tension between the viewing experience and the intended narration. As curators \u00c9line Gourgues and Do Tuong Linh note, the exhibition seeks to \u201cestablish connections with Vietnamese and Caribbean artists who share similar concerns\u201d on identity born out of displacement. But the exhibition layout opens in two directions, juxtaposing two narrative lines: the left side concentrates works by Caribbean artists (Sylvie Bonnot, Claire Zaniolo, Emeline Ametis, Nathyfa Michel, Adeline Rapon, Kosisochukwu Nnebe, Manon Ficuciello, Laila Hida), while the right side is devoted primarily to Vietnamese artists (Flora Mae Nguyen, Dinh Q Le, Prune Phi, Le Nguyen Phuong, Quang Lam, Sol Kim). Of course, the arrangement also depends on the scale and dimensions of the works, but it nonetheless means that viewers are compelled to choose one direction and encounter one side of the story first. This layout creates an intriguing visual rhythm, yet it also means the two narrative lines move on almost parallel tracks, crossing only intermittently before drifting apart again. Perhaps this reflects a universal condition: even when we appear to share a common experience, the stories each of us carries, and the ways we interpret them, can never fully align. And precisely through this spatial organisation, the exhibition unfolds into a more layered narrative \u2013 a wider panorama of how identity takes shape within the Vietnamese and Caribbean diasporic communities. Archive \/ Post\u2013Archive positions itself as an act to \u201cchallenge official histories and reveal fragments of lived experience, myths, and counter-narratives that complicate our understanding of contemporary society.\u201d More specifically, the exhibition\u2019s curatorial flow places viewers in the position of the artists themselves, guiding them through a journey of making sense of identity from afar, traced across three stages: revisiting recorded histories, filling in the gaps through imagination, and returning to the most immediate point of connection \u2013 family.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7023\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7023\" style=\"width: 905px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7023 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image12.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"905\" height=\"703\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image12.png 905w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image12-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image12-768x597.png 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 905px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 905\/703;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7023\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica\">Flora Mae Nguyen, \u201cLove Me Tender\u201d (2021 &#8211; 2025), wallpaper, 260 x 202 cm. Photo: VCCA.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7024\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7024\" style=\"width: 1999px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7024 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image7.jpg 1999w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image7-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image7-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image7-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image7-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1999px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1999\/1333;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7024\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica\">Adeline Rapon, \u201cNot So Bad Our Little Creole, Is It?\u201d (2020), C-Print, wood frame, 50 x 75 cm. Photo: VCCA.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Similar to the act of tracing history and memory, one often begins with what has been recorded. In Flora Mae Nguyen\u2019s Love Me Tender, the opening work of the exhibition, a work stitched from multiple archives: family albums, state documents, institutional images, antique postcards <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2013 <\/span>torn, cyanotyped, overpainted and redrawn. At the same time, Adeline Rapon\u2019s Not So Bad Our Little Creole, Is It?, recreates images of Black West Indian women found on colonial postcards once held by foreign collectors.Rapon\u2019s artistic protocol unfolds in three movements: the acquisition of colonial postcards \u2013 removing them from an exoticising commodity circuit; an embodied subversion, as she restages their poses using her own body; and a visual disruption through the introduction of contemporary elements of confinement. Together, these two works sketch out the core argument of the exhibition: photography was once a tool of documentation, and has since evolved into a counter-narrative to official histories. Their acts of deconstruction and reappropriation probe the indexical authority of the photographic image, reframing the colonial gaze while offering the possibility of repair.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7036\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7036\" style=\"width: 1488px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7036 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image14-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1488\" height=\"1056\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image14-1.jpg 1488w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image14-1-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image14-1-1024x727.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image14-1-768x545.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image14-1-1200x852.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1488px) 100vw, 1488px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1488px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1488\/1056;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7036\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica\">Emeline Ametis, \u201cP\u00e9yi Manman (Mothers&#8217; Country)\u201d (2022), gelatin silver print 40 x 50 cm. Photo: VCCA.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7025 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image11.jpg 1999w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image11-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image11-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image11-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image11-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1999px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1999\/1333;\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7026\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7026\" style=\"width: 1500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7026 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image9.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1001\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image9.png 1500w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image9-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image9-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image9-768x513.png 768w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image9-1200x801.png 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1500px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1500\/1001;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7026\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica\">Quang Lam, \u201cTales From The Dragon Land\u201d (2025), wood mounted C-print, 60 x 90 cm. Photo: VCCA.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7027\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7027\" style=\"width: 1500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7027 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1001\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image3.png 1500w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image3-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image3-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image3-768x513.png 768w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image3-1200x801.png 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1500px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1500\/1001;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7027\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica\">Quang Lam, \u201cTales From The Dragon Land\u201d (2025), wood mounted C-print, 40 x 60 cm. Photo: VCCA.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Displacement also forces one to rely on the imagination of the motherland, filling gaps carved out by distance. In Emeline Ametis\u2019s P\u00e9yi Manman (Mothers&#8217; Country), observers are offered a seashell laid still, white bubbling waves, and a sunlit body against oceanic blue. All the elements suggest a beachscape, idyllic. Here, photography becomes a tool for constructing a reality: her mother\u2019s native archipelago, once marked by violence, appears instead as a mere postcard landscape, a vacation destination. Meanwhile, Quang Lam\u2019s Tales From The Dragon Land turns to Vietnam\u2019s own myth of origins to make sense of its long histories of migration <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2013<\/span> the story of Lac Long Quan and the Au Co, whose hundred children would one day scatter between the mountains and the sea. Through the \u201cfruits of the dragons,\u201d their trajectories appear scattered, dispersed across locations, surfaces, and shifting contexts <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2013<\/span> a lineage continually carried elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7028 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1125\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image10.jpg 1999w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image10-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image10-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image10-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image10-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image10-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1999px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1999\/1125;\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7029\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7029\" style=\"width: 945px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7029 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"945\" height=\"670\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image5.jpg 945w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image5-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image5-768x545.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 945px) 100vw, 945px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 945px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 945\/670;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7029\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica\">Le Nguyen Phuong, \u201cThe Meeting Place\u201d (2024), wood mounted C-print, 32 x 40 cm. Photo: VCCA.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7030\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7030\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7030 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1600\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image8.png 1280w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image8-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image8-819x1024.png 819w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image8-768x960.png 768w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image8-1229x1536.png 1229w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image8-1200x1500.png 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1280px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1280\/1600;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica\">Le Nguyen Phuong, \u201cThe Meeting Place\u201d (2024), wood mounted C-print, 120 x 150 cm. Photo: VCCA.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Most of the works in the exhibition deal with the past, yet its most tender piece suggests that even in moments of oblivion, we find ways to reconnect. Le Nguyen Phuong\u2019s The Meeting Place unfolds as a two-sided photographic installation. One side comprises archival images from his family albums: his father, then a professional volleyball player under the Hanoi Military command and a member of Vietnam\u2019s national team, captured during a training trip to Siem Reap. The other presents photographs taken in 2024, when Le invited his father to return to Siem Reap nearly thirty years after his first visit. The gesture becomes a quiet act of retrieval, allowing his father to revisit personal memories and reflect on a formative chapter in their family history. Within the broader concerns of the exhibition, the series reveals the often unseen layers of history that reside within familial and personal relationships.<\/p>\n<p>The issues surrounding immigrants are intensely gazed upon across developing nations today, including within Vietnamese and Caribbean communities, as millions now live far from their motherlands. But while Archive \/ Post\u2013Archive lingers on difficult truths: post-colonial trauma, displacement, and the oblivion of disconnection; it is also defiant, warm and unexpectedly soothing. It looks at colonialism and its aftermath, while acknowledging our yearning for connection and sense of belonging. Perhaps the question is not how much we continue to suffer from inherited traumas, but how we learn to be at ease with where we are, to reconcile, and to understand that history is not only inherited, but continually rewritten.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Words: Kieu-Nga Trang<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archive \/ Post\u2013Archive at VCCA, part of Photo Hanoi \u201825 orbits around the aftermath of post-colonial trauma, and wonder whether we can fully shed its legacies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-natomy","category-featured-articles"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.4 (Yoast SEO v26.7) - 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